In a neck-and-neck game between No. 1 seed Notre Dame and No. 2 seed Connecticut, who else would show up to take over the second half game? Arike Ogunbowale, the 2018 NCAA tournament hero who hit the game-winning shot to beat UConn in the Final Four and then Mississippi State in the championship game, went off, of course.
Arike Ogunbowale owns the Final Four
THIS IS WHAT SHE DOES.
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Ogunbowale had all of two first-half points, then scored 21 in the final 20 minutes to hold off Napheesa Collier, Katie Lou Samuelson and the Huskies in an 81-76 win.
This is what she does. This is when she shines.
In the clutch, she found her stroke. She scored 14 points in the final quarter, including a pair of threes, a clutch baseline jumper and the go-ahead free throws that kept the Notre Dame Irish marching to the championship. She finished with 23 points on 7-of-18 shooting and six rebounds.
When she hit THIS jumper off an inbounds throw-in, we knew she’d be ready if the game went to the final buzzer:
Then at the free throw line, she pulled through. She sunk four 4-of-4 in the final minute:
Best of luck to the Baylor Bears in trying to stop the Arike Show. It usually doesn’t end until she says so.
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